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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

The really big projects of course have public and political dimensions and it is generally accepted that such projects are inevitably underestimated in order to gain approval. Take the Olympic Games, for example. Of course, many will look back and say that it’s not about the cost, just look at that fantastic thing we built.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. All project work has uncertainty. Uncertainty comes from the lack of precision and accuracy about the possible values of a measurement of a project attribute.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 1, March 2014.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 24, 2010.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates. Ontological uncertanty is the thrid form, but not applicable here. and Dutta, P.,

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Best agency project management software: 10 tools to short-list today – Part 5

Resource Guru

You can find previous parts in this series here: Part 1: The basics of agency project management Part 2: 5 agency project management methodologies Part 3: Your 9-step agency project management process Part 4: Agency team structure: Building a team for effective growth Part 5: You’re reading it.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Management Processes. Planning and Scheduling (#PS).